exhibits and represents artists working across a variety of disciplines with particular focus on contemporary book arts, works on paper, collage and assemblage. |
910 Santa Fe, #101, Denver, Colorado, USA at the north end of the 910 Arts Complex street entrance just south of Swift's Diner Open |
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Carolyn Leigh |
birds of spring - pájaros de primaveraacid free papers, acrylics, Tyvek hinges, PVA glue, Renaissance Wax 9 ¼ x 6 ½ x 1 ½ $ 950© 2013 edition size: 1/1 The pages are constructed from commercial book papers and overpainted with fluid acrylics. The images are cut back to the whites of the original paper. The bottle cap rattle is the “voice” of the mixed stories. The book’s flag book format juxtaposes the exterior male birds with the interior female-egg-fledgling forms. The duality is continued in the English/Spanish haiku text. The book reflects the rich, fertile nature of cross-border life. Carolyn Leigh is a painter, book artist and author with studios in Tucson, AZ, USA and Alamos, Sonora, Mexico. She taught Scientific Illustration and Photography at the University of Arizona until she joined her husband, Ron Perry, as a tribal art dealer in Papua New Guinea and Indonesia. She is the author of two books: “Art Dealer in the Last Unknown” and “New Guinea Tribal Art eGuide.” Her work is in private and public collections in North America, Europe and the South Pacific. |